K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A lot has happened in the world of Kpop this summer, from Girls’ Generation sugar coated banger “Forever 1” marking a triumphant return from a five year hiatus, to the ascendance of newcomers NewJeans, whose R&B infused sounds have quickly taken over the charts. But it's the return of BLACKPINK that has lit up the world literally in pink. Get a full deep dive on the songs at the top of the Kpop charts on the latest episode of Switched On Pop, where hosts Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan speak with journalist Kristine Kwak. Songs Discussed Psy, SUGA - That That J-hope - MORE BLACKPINK - Pink Venom Girls’ Generation IVE - LOVE DIVE NewJeans - Attention SWV - I’m So Into You Rihanna - Pon De Replay Missy Elliot - Work It 50 Cent - Just A Lil Bit Taylor Swift “Look What You Made Me Do” Panjabi MC, JAY-Z - Mundian to Bach Ke Britney Spears, Madonna - Me Against the Music Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It’s Hot Snoop Dogg - I Wanna Rock The Notorious B.I.G. - Kick in the Door Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop, I'm Songwriter Charlie Harding, and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:17.7	A lot has happened in the world of K-pop this spring and summer.
0:21.0	We've had the return of Sigh.
0:23.8	BTS have entered a new era of solo work.
0:30.8	And we've had major comebacks including the return of Black Pink.
0:41.1	Today, Nate, we're gonna do an overdue episode of Chart Breakers where we listen to chart
0:53.8	to see what's catching our ears and we're gonna do it K-pop style this time.
0:57.7	We're looking at South Korea's newly launched global K-pop circle chart and billboards South Korea Song Chart.
1:04.5	And we've invited a long journalist Christine Quack who writes for Rolling Stone and Variety and who has spoken with and reviewed many of today's K-pop acts.
1:15.2	Christine, welcome.
1:16.1	Hi, thank you for the welcome.
1:17.9	I'm excited to do this today.
1:19.2	Very happy to have you here.
1:20.7	Excited to be here.
1:21.9	Okay, before we dive in, a quick disclaimer.
1:25.2	We are not stands of this genre.
1:27.9	We are casual K-pop listeners who love the music when our editor, Jo Lee, turns us on to the greater world of K-pop in our weekly meetings.
1:37.6	And I think this is a chance for us to learn and celebrate.
1:42.7	So let's get into the music.
1:44.6	The first song I wanna listen to is by the group Girls Generation.
1:48.2	They're seventh Korean language studio, all of them is out.
1:51.5	They're an eight member group.
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